Hi all.
I'm 36 and live in Perth, Australia. Story is I was nerdy in high school, entered university feeling more confident in an environment with more brains and less brawn. But only ever got LJBF's with girls complaining about their "jerk boyfriends".
In the late 90's, I took a gap year betweeb my 2nd last and last year of university where I became a podium dancer in night clubs. Got really good tone and posture, albeit thin and ended up immersed in the club scene, drugs, money. I developed pretty good style and peacocked extraordinarily well, and being a dancer I could open quite easily. So some of the elements of game, but not complete. I couldn't close that well, felt awkward with kino (equality and all) and I couldn't fake rambling (not knowing what it was). So I had learned some elements of game independently and observed their results, though I did lack all the pieces to assemble an holistic approach.
I became very cynical of women in a short time because what I had learned was contradictory of what I felt I had been told, but in hignsight, in a "5 stages of grief" analysis, I didn't "accept" it as this is how women are, I "bargained" it away as the women I've met will only engage in this as a short term phase.
Ended up in a LTR with a virgin where I wasn't aware of the nature shit-tests, and where the incessant demand for attention snowballed to the point I was dedicating so much time for her that I didn't have enough time to focus on looking after myself. My weight blew out, I became more withdrawn and then at the end she f*cked another guy.
Her hamster tried to rationalise it away, one point becoming "If you had suspicions I was seeing him, why didn't you tell me to stop even being near him. I wanted you to tell me that!"
I got other thing like "Sexually, I just want you to take me" and "I want to feel protected", then with the guy she fucked "I want you to go and hit him".
For me, it didn't reconcile with treating a woman as an equal. Rational thought, to me, dictated that "I shouldn't have to tell you to stay away" and "I shouldn't have to hit him, he didn't do the wrong thing, you did".
Quite simply I wasn't equipped, knowledge wise, to assemble the data.
Well this year I took a trip to Paris, embraced the food culture and wall to wall thin women. Loved it and felt I should plan another one in quick order.
For some reason Ecuador peaked my interest at a certain point in time and when I googled "How to pick up women in Ecuador" or something like that, a first page result was roosh's site.
Then onto Roissy, then Rollo Tomasi, and all the pieces started to fit, as if a narration for all my issues was offered. The red pill.
Since then, for lack of a better word, 'resuming' game immediately implementing all the previous pieces and working on my weak parts to practice game.
It has worked well.
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